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...York artists, writers, musicians heard cheering news last week: Bob Chanler was better, Bob Chanler was out of bed again. Dozens of them went down to offer their congratulations to one of the greatest painters, one of the most spectacular characters in the U. S. They found him, majestic in a long pink nightgown and shaggy thatch of white hair, sipping a stiff hooker of brandy, and playing Russian Bank with small, vivacious Mile Suzanne Tirlier, otherwise "Tilly," his secretary...
...Chanler was born auspiciously enough on Washington's Birthday, 1873. His family was and still is socially prominent in apple-raising Dutchess County (above & east of Poughkeepsie), New York?a family full of "characters" and legends, a wealthy family that can indulge its eccentricities. At the age of ten Bob drew an indubitable horse on a large piece of paper, took it into the parlor for his parents to admire. They refused to believe that he had done it, punished him for lying. Discouraged, he did not try to draw again, for another 25 years...
From the depths of the English Channel last week the grey conning tower and then the deck of a British submarine rose, spume-flecked, at an historic moment. His Majesty's sub had chanced to bob up directly between the two fastest liners in the world, both German: the nine-month-old Bremen bound for Bremerhaven, and her new sister ship, the Europa, maiden-voyaging to New York...
...four times. . . Every Western Conference swimming champion will be in attendance this weekend. Notable among those who will seek national titles are Al Schwartz of Northwestern in the 40-yard, 100-yard, and 220-yard swims, Jarnett Ault of Michigan in the 440-yard free style. Dick Hinch and Bob Howlett of Northwestern in the 150-yard back stroke and 200-yard breast stroke respectively, and Lobdell of Iowa in the fancy diving. . . One of the outstanding individual performances from the standpoint of the spectator will be the exhibition fancy diving from the high board by Mickey Riley...
These historic characters are now impersonated by a notable cast. As Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Fiske has a role worthy of her farcial talents, and James T. Powers can exercise all his vocal tricks in the delineation of comical Bob Acres. Among the others: Rollo Peters; Pedro de Cordoba; Margery, daughter of Cyril Maude; Georgette, daughter of George M. Cohan. It is a pleasant diversion, recalling a time when the stage was consecrated to mannerly gaiety, ending in a few blithe measures neatly danced by the entire cast beneath the arching trees of King's Mead Fields...